Tom

I have found it is a small world filled with God-intended serendipity, chance meetings, somehow meant to be. Coincidences? Are there...

I sit on my porch in the mountains, Rocking; Smelling the fresh breeze as it rustles, All but silently, Air unseen, My chores dun. You’ll...

Her name is Iris, a delicate delectable beauty. Unannounced, she shows up at our place annually, by nature’s spectacular clockwork,...

*A must read 1964 semi-autobiography by Hannah Green (Joanne Greenberg); a descriptive book on schizophrenia. So you never promised her a...

I prayed today, Gardening away, Sweat to the ground, I spaded a way. Planting abound. Turnips and tulips, Flowers and fruits, Hand me my...

Today I spoke with the parents of one of the baseball teams that frequent D-BAT Asheville, where I was the Resident Sports Psychologist...

John said it best - “For God so loved the world that He sent his only begotten Son.” Thank God! *photo by TWT/JW. I drew the picture. Jim...

And when it is, put away all your cares and woes and enjoy? Grab a good book and kick back whether it be chair, porch swing, creek side...

I came upon a man, Jim, Known a bit of my life, A man happy I know, Had you known him, His insides belying, His happy face. Hello! Hello!...

Do evil tendencies cancel? I rather think not, Frost first brought it up, But must there be opposites? If there’s Good, Must there be...

Jay Secretarski, #6, Asheville High School Varsity Freshman - His first home run. It cleared the left field wall by a mile! we knew it...

I came upon the bench, Quite convenient, Quite comfortable, Timely. It beckoned, “Come sit a spell, Rest your weary self, For you are on...

“Wisdom be not fleeting, but grasp me in thy clutches and set me free, for I am mankind in need!” Wisdom, what are you? Where are you? I...

Wait? What? What snow is this, That lays today, Upon my snowy land. You’ve come to steal my Spring, You have, With your blustery frozen...

NIGHTTIME READING by Hannah and Tom “I climbed into bed and had a fight, I wanted to read by my nightlight. I began to read in my new...

Stories abound and echo off these Appalachian walls, lifted on the gentle breeze from haller tu’ holler. They haunt about and tell of...

I have a Sprite, That brights my day, Wish I warn’t, So far away; But when I visit, She’s the one, That keeps this old, Quite young.

Gas must be contained? Of course. But space, Is lighter than gas, And gravity keeps it all in place. The natural shape in a vacuum, Is...

He’s met a girl So neat is she; I wonder if They’ll soon be three? circa June 19, 1965 ❤️HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY❤️

In college I studied what I thought was Philosophy, Nietzsche Nonsense Sartre Sarcasm Socratic Solosophy Aristotelian Logic Plato’s...